Casio’s G-Shock is a watch of fine Japanese style and durability. Short for Gravitational Shock, G-Shock watches are designed to endure stress and shock with water-resistant features. While G-Shock watches are meant for outdoors, they come in both analogue and digital styles as well as a combination of the two. These watches have multiple buttons to set an alarm or change time instead of the typical dial.
In this article, we will be discovering how to change the time on G-Shock watches by pressing the buttons present on the watch.
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The buttons of G-Shock
While a G-Shock watch is meant to survive a fall from a height and have a long battery life, it is unusable if you don’t understand how to set the time on this tough watch. Given below is a brief description of all the buttons present on your G-Shock:
- Adjust: This button is present on the top-left corner of your G-Shock watch. You can adjust and set the time on your watch using this button.
- Mode: This button is present on the lower-left corner of your G-Shock watch. You can use this button to switch from one feature to another on the watch while setting time.
- Forward: This button is present on the lower-right corner of your G-Shock watch. You can use this button to alter forward the digits on your watch.
- Reverse/Light: This button is present on the top-right corner of your G-Shock watch. You can use this button to alter the digits backwards on your watch or enable the backlight.
How to set the time on a G-Shock?
Follow the steps given in detail below to find out how to set or adjust the time on your G-Shock, they work for both analogue and digital G-Shock watches, as well as a combination:
Step 1: Press and hold the Adjust button (1) for two to three seconds till you hear a beep sound or one of the digits on your watch screen starts flashing. Now you can set or adjust the digits on your G-Shock watch as you have entered the setting mode.
Step 2: Now press the Mode button (2) till you find the hours digit flashing. Every time you click the Mode button, you will be able to switch from hours to minutes to seconds and then back to the hour digits again.
Step 3: If the hour digits are flashing currently then use either of the Reverse (4) or Forward (3) buttons to change the hour digits according to the present time. On pressing the Reverse button (4), the hour digit will go backward and on pressing the Forward button (4), the hour digit will go forward.
Step 4: After you have adjusted the hour digits to match the present time, now press Mode button (2) again to head over to minutes digits and then seconds digits. While the minute digits are flashing, press the Forward (3) and Reverse (4) buttons to adjust the digit back and forth. Similarly, press the Mode button again to change the second digits using the Reverse and Forward buttons.
Step 5: After you have completely set the hour, minutes, and seconds digits individually, then press the Adjust button (1) once again to exit the setting screen. This way you can reset the time on your G-Shock watch at any place or time.
Remember, that if the second digits are between 30 and 59 when you are pressing the Forward button (3) to change the digits, then the seconds will be reset to 00 and 1 will be added to the minute count.
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